LEAVENWORTH — This historic Kansas prison town will allow CoreCivic to hold federal immigration detainees after a year of legal wrangling and public outcry from opponents. Four out of five city commissioners voted to grant CoreCivic’s application for a special use permit. The decision ...

A court ruled Tuesday that a new Kansas law restricting bathroom use and ID changes for transgender people can remain in effect. The ruling means that transgender people must use bathrooms in government-owned buildings that align with their sex assigned at birth. Driver’s licenses and birth ...

TOPEKA — Servicemembers in a Kansas Air National Guard air refueling wing deployed in support of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran in conjunction with votes by the U.S. Senate and U.S. House to reject a resolution forbidding the armed forces from continuing to engage in hostilities without ...

UPDATED 5:25 P.M. MARCH 6 KU and the labor union representing the university’s approximately 1,600 faculty members have reached a tentative agreement on wages, working conditions and a host of other issues, the union announced Friday morning. Leaders with the United Academics of KU said ...

Concern is rising that the first major storm outbreak on the verge of spring could strike the nation's heartland, putting millions of Americans from Texas to Iowa at risk of potentially strong tornadoes. Some scattered severe thunderstorms were expected to begin late Thursday in the Texas ...

KU management and the labor union representing its faculty members were scheduled to negotiate Thursday as the two parties near the date that KU has said it would seek to declare the negotiations at an impasse. An update posted by the United Academics of KU — which represents about 1,500 ...